Corporate social media was a mistake. Genuinely, I lay a lot of why the state of the western world is the way it is at the feet of Zuckerberg and his peers.

Complaining about online petitions.

If you are in America and are expressing pro-Palestinian views online regardless of your citizenship status, you should be seriously considering yourself a legitimate target for arrest or abduction by the state. If you haven’t already, it is essential to assess your security posture and take action as required.

If you need a starting point, take a look at the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s surveillance self-defense guide: https://ssd.eff.org/

Please be safe.

There is nothing wrong with it other than it makes me feel ancient and I don’t like it.

There are definitely gatekeepers. Even if your hosting provider isn’t blocking port 25 by default, SPF, DKIM and DMARC will see your emails going straight into the recipient’s junk folder/spam filter if not correctly configured. Hosting your own mail server at home is also a fantastic way to piss off your ISP, lose emails to downtime, have your IP blacklisted from many services and open up your environment to exploitation. It can be done but let’s not pretend that it’s easy or that there aren’t barriers to entry.

Mail servers are like filo pastry. Sure, you could go to the inconvenience and effort of making it yourself and I’m sure it’ll be very satisfying to do so. But 99% of professionals use the store bought version, and for good reason, because it’s a lot of effort for an end result that is no better and in all likelihood probably worse.

Did someone vibe code too close to the sun again?

Did anyone actually expect Bluesky to be different to any other corporate-run social media platform? What was the point of jumping from one to another?

Just more proof that FOSS and proper decentralisation (yes I know that Bluesky is technically federated but this halfway house shit they’re doing is not proper decentralisation) that are the only things that will save us.

If we’re being real I don’t really trust anyone with my data.

Generating content with AI to throw off crawlers. I dread to think of the resources we’re wasting on this utter insanity now, but hey who the fuck cares as long as the line keeps going up for these leeches.

There’s been a ton in the UK outed as predators themselves. It’s projection.

It’s happening, slowly but surely. UK issued one today.

I’m so sick of seeing “Trump has just signed this insane executive order but don’t worry, what he’s doing is actually ✨illegal!✨”

Yeah, well who the fuck is stopping him them? Because from where I’m standing, it seems like no one is.

Fascism has well and truly arrived in the US and American libs still have this insane idea that it can be stopped by the rule of law and the checks and balances they love so much. Well they don’t fucking work when your opponent ignores them and every bureaucrat in government allows him to do so. When the history books are written, let these people be regarded in the same way as those who thought they could work with or appease Hitler.

The stated goal of age verification is safety, I have only seen evidence that complying will make everyone using the internet less safe.

Can’t say I have a huge issue with this - Plex isn’t FOSS and the infrastructure to make this happen isn’t free. Other options are available if you don’t want to pay the fee.

These takes bother me a lot less when I remember that there is a very high chance that the person making them is literally 14.

Windows 10 was never good, it just looks good compared to the radioactive slag heap that is Windows 11.

I prefer to call it the masterbatorium.

So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?

Can’t even give little Timmy childhood lead poisoning anymore because of woke smh

Bruh your entire profile is you going to bat for these fuckers, gtfo